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к 150-летию академика В. В. Бартольда (1869–1930). Ч. 1 255 Секция VI. Источниковедение и историография центральной Азии Historiography and Source Studies of Central Asia Yahia Baiza (The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK) Vladimir Ivanow and Ismailism: The Rise of Modern Ismaili Historiography This paper presents a critical analysis of the rise of modern Ismaili historiography through the works of Vladimir Alekseevich Ivanow, better known by his short name as Vladimir Ivanow (1886–1970). In this paper we assert that Ivanow’s dedicated work on studying Ismaili manuscripts provided a historical breakthrough and was a major milestone in modern Ismaili historiography. His research and publications in Ismaili studies resolved some of the centuries-old myths which mired the Ismaili history in fabricated polemic accounts, since the medieval time, commissioned and produced by the Abbasid caliphate (750–1258) to discredit the Fatimid Ismaili caliphate (909–1171) in Cairo, Egypt. Ivanow’s research in Ismailitica, particularly of manuscripts, was by no means new. The discovery, collection, and analysis of centuries-old Ismaili manuscripts had already started in Tsarist Russia long before Ivanow entered the field of Ismaili studies in Persia and later in India. Russian orientalists under the Tsarist rule in Central Asia collected a significant number of Ismaili manuscripts from Tajikistan. However, Ivanow not only continued the established Russian oriental study of Ismaili manuscripts but, through his critical scholarly approach and modern style of writing, he also filled many gaps in Ismaili history and almost single-handedly